Stellar Countdown Yields Skymap

July 27, 2003 | Source: Astrobiology

The SETI@home screensaver has produced a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look. After an equivalent to a million years of computation aided by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the researchers have created a skymap that highlights where to find some of the most promising choices (strong signals or ones that have been observed in the same spot more than once, some five or six times).

A next-generation “Astropulse” project will be designed to process SETI signals as well as detect pulsars (at periods up to nearly a millisecond) and evaporating black holes.